The Community Spotlight 2023.03.25

Welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight! I, @zombiepie, am once again honored to be your host as we look back at the best community-created works from the previous week.

Every edition of the Community Spotlight has a slight theme and for this one, it's clearly site-related news. There's a lot to review and if you missed some of these announcements or updates don't blame yourself, so, let's jump into it.

Last week, Giant Bomb hosted a Town Hall meeting in the Discord and answered a handful of questions from the community. During this, Dan, Grubb, Bakalar, and Jan discussed how the site's budget is growing, they are interested in hosting community-oriented streams that Rorie once hosted, and the direction of the site overall. For example, the missing chairs for existing shows will rotate as they have and Mike Minotti is being paid for the air-time he's providing for Giant Bomb.

Speaking of the Discord, the bot in charge of the Premium Channel on the Giant Bomb Discord has gone haywire. The result is that the Discord removed the Premium tag from some folks who are actually premium. If that is the case, head on over to bot-linkdump and run the /Premium recheck command to get it all fixed up. If that doesn't work, DM a mod that is available.

For those of you wondering about why GameSpot After Dark appeared on the site, and without warning, there was a reason. GameSpot is editing and updating their normal video and podcast host and needed to switch hosting services. In the mean time, they still needed to post shows and podcasts for RSS Feed and content deadline purposes. The Giant Bomb staff offered to host their show until things get resolved and hopefully you all use this as an opportunity to check their shows out.

Fandom and Giant Bomb announced that Giant Bomb is returning to the convention circuit! If you plan to be in San Diego from April 7-9, you will have the opportunity to watch Jan, Grubb, Dan, and Fandom personalities in-person! In fact, the Giant Bomb-led panel will be a LIVE Voicemail Dump Truck. They're asking that all call-ins be gaming related.

For those of you that rely on the site's front page to locate new videos and content, the site is getting mixed reports about bugs and issues with the front page carousels. If you have had issues, file a comment/report over here. Dylan alone has re-filed over twenty-five support tickets and we are reviewing how to make bug reports easier and more user-friendly. Also, the deployment of the store is TBD right now.

Finally, last week was Jeff Grubb's birthday. If you have not already issued him a belated "happy birthday" feel free to do so in the comments section of the 03/24/2023 UPF.

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Art

Mike Minotti Vying For Margaritaville (By: @MichaelROLeary)

During a recent Game Mess Mornings, Mike Minotti relayed that he is a fan of margaritas and Mikey O'Leary decided to run with this and imagine Mike as a legendary margarita hunter looking for a drink to end all drinks.

Activities

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